I read in a recent article, reguarding the potential of chatgpt, etc "AI Agents" doing online shopping for people,
Anthropic last year released an open-source software standard for agents, Model Context Protocol, that eliminates the grunt work developers of agents need to do for the AI to get information from apps or take actions involving them, such as making a purchase.
and in a more recent source,
Google has decided to adopt the Model Context Protocol, it announced yesterday, joining rivals including OpenAI, Amazon and Microsoft in embracing the software
Master Control Program (Nick=MCP) has entered the channel....